overcharge

Example Sentences

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C. Meat packers are using “their position as middlemen to overcharge grocery stores and, ultimately, families.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

The HUD figure, which is based on Census data for typical apartment rents in an area, is used to ensure landlords cannot overcharge low-income residents with housing choice vouchers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

In practice, many insurers overcharge the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars in inflated estimates, often by adding diagnosis codes that make individuals appear sicker on paper than they are in reality.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2024

Due to this capture, Google is able to overcharge text-ad clients and shroud its actual terms in secrecy in a way that it hasn’t with more visually oriented ads.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2024

In this way you avoid unpleasant company during your drive, and overcharge at the end of it.

From The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Hartley, Florence